There are many ways to show spiritual stages from a list to pictures to a wheel. Each variation seems to include very similar stages. Keep in mind all depictions are dynamic allowing them to address where you are and not to demand any particular and definite approach. They are not fixed or set as rules or "must be's."
Zen does not hold doctrines or dogma. It points. And the work is up to you. You find out for yourself whether you are able to see what it points to.
The flexibility allows you to arrange them according to your spiritual life, to omit some, add others or change them according to your life. The admonition is "not too loose, not too tight."
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| Spiritual Practice is Relative |
One size does not fit all. These are possibilities, tips and pointers to things that might happen to you. Recall each one, find out for yourself where you are.
The Ox Herder is Confused
The Confusion May Be Hazardous
Pay Attention
You Need to Know What to Leave?
You May Feel Pulled by Your Dilemma
You May Feel Sunk
Despite the Struggle You See a Trace of Faith
You Need to Recharge to Keep Going
Confidence
Agony on the Path
Don't Give Up.
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